Conservatism

Conservatism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

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"The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge."

Roger Scruton· b. 1944View quote →

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"Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing."

"The atomic bomb is a marvelous gift that was given to our country by a wise God."

"Works of Joseph de Maistre in English Translation"

"The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge."

"Instead of negotiating with the Israeli regime, the Arab states should talk to the Palestinian nation so as to garner divine consent and national popularity."

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🇨🇦George Grant (philosopher)

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Conservatism

1918–1988

"Modern technology is not simply an extension of human making through the power of a perfected science, but is a new account of what it is to know and to make in which both activities are changed by their co-penetration."

"Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell."

"instead of migrants, European families must be given the money to enable them to commit to having as many children as possible."

"is its openness to talent wherever found, the feminist demand for collective quotas has overturned the basic feature of our civilization."

"I think it’s easier to mourn over a lion that’s been killed than over a baby that’s been killed, I think that’s how far we are from our humanity,"

"When heaven and earth have passed away, perhaps the conservative mind and the libertarian mind may be joined in synthesis, but not until then."

"A wise psychoanalyst once told me, “Stop looking at what you’re saying, look at what you’re doing."

"Nino Raspudić Author's Page in Večernji list with published columns listed"

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Notable Quotes

"It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal."

— Benjamin Disraeli, b. 1804View →

"Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing."

— Benjamin Disraeli, b. 1804View →

"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfilment."

— Benjamin Disraeli, b. 1804View →

"Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets."

— Benjamin Disraeli, b. 1804View →

"If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity."

— Benjamin Disraeli, b. 1804View →

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